Word: faithfully
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Cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA), I welcome Judith Kidd as Public Service Dean for Harvard College. I see her appointment as an opportunity for PBHA to strengthen our identity and clarify our overall mission. I maintain great faith that Dean Lewis and the College have, above all, acted with the interests of the students and the communities we serve in mind...
What alarms me in reading the articles in today's paper is that this faith remains unfounded by the evidence. Other student leaders have said enough about the dismissal of student input in the entire search process; even the most optimistic of them have, in my personal conversations with them, expressed great dismay about the end result. What concerns me are Dean Lewis's priorities for public service at Harvard: "to stabilize, promote and make as effective as possible the kind of public service activities that our undergraduates are involved...
Oddly, and sadly, the solution does not answer the fear. Politics is no cure for cultural assimilation. A flag and an anthem do not assure cultural vitality. The faith that they will is as desperate as it is sentimental...
...sold 6.4 million books, is a former bluegrass musician who lived in a trailer before moving to a log house near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Like most successful Christian novelists, he practices what he preaches as a devout Evangelical. "Part of being a Christian is that you share your faith," he says. "My writing is message centered." However, Peretti has brought his genre closer to mainstream pop fiction. For The Oath, Word, his new publisher, brought in "a New York editor," and the effort shows in the density and pacing of the plot...
Then what went wrong? Why did these reporters slowly lose their faith in a war they were eager to cover, even at the risk of their own lives? Prochnau blames Washington and Saigon for an unworkable strategy against the Viet Cong and for a refusal to listen to journalists who discovered it wasn't working. The more the officials tried to bamboozle or stonewall reporters, the more they drove them to dig for themselves and to unearth a disaster in the making...